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Family name origins & meanings
- Spanish and Jewish (Sephardic) : nickname from pinto ‘colorful’, ‘painted’.
- Spanish : habitational name from Pinto in Madrid.
- Catalan (Pintó) : Catalan variant of Pintor ‘painter’.
- Portuguese : from a nickname from pinto ‘chick’.
- Italian : from pinto ‘mottled’, ‘dotted’ (Late Latin pinctus, for classical Latin pictus ‘painted’), hence a nickname for a person with a blotchy or pock-marked complexion or pepper-and-salt hair, or in some parts of the south at least from the same word in the sense ‘lively or restless person’.